collection

Henry H. Sibley papers

• 1826-1848 (Creation)

1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)

Papers of Minnesota's first governor during his years as a fur trader, consisting primarily of correspondence among the various American Fur Company agents located in the Wisconsin Territory. Correspondence concerns internal company business; business with Hudson's Bay Fur Company; company agreements with the Dakota Indians; company interest in United States government treaties with the Dakota, Ojibwa, and Winnebago Indians; attempts by the company to prevent war between the Dakota and the Sauk and Fox Indians; relations with missionaries to the Indians of the region; and company disputes with Indian agents Henry R. Schoolcraft and Lawrence Taliaferro.
Correspondents prominent in the early history of Minnesota and Wisconsin include William Aitken, Frederick Ayer, Alexis Bailly, Bernard Brisbois, Ramsay Crooks, Henry Dodge, James Doty, Hercules Dousman, Jean Faribault, Alexander Faribault, Joseph Nicollet, Henry Rice, Joseph Rolette, Henry Schoolcraft, Lawrence Taliaferro, and Lyman Warren.

This collection is only available on microfilm.

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0345

Purchased by the Wisconsin Historical Society from the Minnesota Historical Society, 1945.

Originals are at the Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota

Henry H. Sibley papers are located in the collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Microfilm reproduced from microfilm located at the Wisconsin Historical Soclety.